Re: What is supposed to replace clock_t?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > The only sane interface is a seconds-based one, either like /proc/uptime
> > (ie ASCII floating point representation) or a mixed integer representation
> > like timeval/timespec where you have seconds and micro/nanoseconds
> > separately.
>
> Anything wrong with 64-bit nanoseconds? It's easy to work with,
> being an integer type, and it survives the year 2038.

That still counts as being "seconds-based" in my book - the problem with
clock_t (and jiffies) has always been that it has been based not on a
globally defined time-standard, but on an implementation issue.

And we want to be able to change the implementation issue at will.

		Linus